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(Blue Note)   www.bluenote.com       Lay It Down can’t compete with Call Me or The Belle Album or any of Al Green’s other seventies classics, but it does a fi more...

(Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   Al Kooper: sideman extraordinaire (to Dylan and the Stones, among many); collaborator (for starters, with Mike Bloomfield and Steve Stills, on more...

(SteadyBoy)   www.steadyboyrecords.com He may be one of the more obscure names that's ever managed to intersect a famous trajectory, but Al Staehely's contributions to the band Spirit af more...

(One Little Indian)   www.onelittleindian-us.com   A convenient recap of Alabama3's tangled trajectory, Hits and Exit Wounds will likely prompt more questions than clarifications for more...

  (Rekords Rekords)   www.rekordsrekords.com   Alain Johannes gets around. A longtime associate of Josh Homme, the multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with Queens of the Sto more...

(Kingswood Records)     www.alanaamram.com  Vince Martin's status in folk music circles ranks well below the radar when compared to others of his generation, particularly more...

  (Maverick) www.maverick.com       Memo: To Record Labels Re: How not to get a good review for your artist   1. Send the disc out from a stealth address that doesn&rs more...

(Drag City) www.dragcity.com   Most modern folk references begin and end with Devendra Banhart and his shoe-gazing brethren, forsaking entirely the more timeless troubadours of decades more...

(Milan)   www.milanrecords.com     Alaska in Winter is the sole creation of multi-instrumentalist Brandon Bethancourt; his sound brings to mind Beirut meeting a synthesizer. Th more...

(Blind Pig)   www.blindpigrecords.com     Blues guitarist Albert Cummings isn't as well known as some of his peers, but in the decade since his self-released debut album, he sh more...